multinational state Flashcards
multiethnical state
state with 1+ ethnicities
multiethnical sttae example
USA has many ethnic groups believing that they all beliong to the american nationalitiy
multinational states
type of mutiethnic state; has 2 ethnic groups with self determination agreeing to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities
multinational state example
United kingdom
soviet union
russia
united kingdom as an multinational state
4 main nationalities (because of historical differences)
england/ svotland/ northern ireland/ wales
wales history
1282 conquered by england and united with england through act of union 1536
welsh laws abolished and wales became a loca lgovernment unit
scotland history
independent country until1603 whe nscotlands king james VI became king of england, uniting the two countries
act of union 1707merged govnts but it kept its education and local laws
north ireland history
ruled by british until 1920s
1801 act of union creates great britain and ireland
ireland except north region gets independence
coountry name changed to United kngdom of great britain and northern ireland
soviet union the multinational state
15 epublics bsed on 15 largegst ethnicities
the breakup resulted in 15 states in 5 groups baltic europeAN CENTRAL ASIAN caucasus russia
new baltic nation sttaes
estonia latvia and lithuania
b/c near baltic sea
estonian religion
protestant (lutheran)
lithuania religion
roman catholic
latvians religion
lutheran/ roman catholic minority
estonian language
uralian
latvians and lithuanians language
balto slavic branch of indoeuropean languages
new european nation states
belarus moldova ukraine
language: east slavik
religion: orthodox christian
new central asian states
5 states
russia a mutinational state
39 nationalities
ethnicities on the border and
ethnicities inland
independence movements flourish cuz russia is lesslikely to suppress these movements forcibly than the soviet union did.
the most problamatic are the chechens- sunni muslims who speak caucasian language. they declared independence and refused to join russia after soviet union breakup. chechnya important b/c of petroleum and if they get independece, other ethnicities may follow suit
caucasus problems
home to several ethnicities-
azeris,
armenians,
georgians
abhazians chechens ingush ossetians kurds russians all have aspirations to make a sovereign state
entire caucasus region wa sin the soviet union (soviet union promoted allegian ce to communism and forcefully stoped disputes btwn ethnic groups) and the brakupled to armed conflicts
azerbaijan history
roots in turkish invaders migrating to central asia who merged with existing persian pop
1828 treaty allocated north azeri territory to russia and south to persia (iran)
the north part became azerbaijan and become independent in the soviet union breakup
armenia history
3,000 yrs ago, they controlled an independent kingdom in the caucasus.
18-19 century, many were killed in turk massacre
and others were force to migrate to russia
russia gained posetion of east armenia 1828
after WW1allies created independent armenia
which waS SWALLOWED BY NEIGHBORS
1921, turkety and soviet union decided to split armenia and soviet portion becomes an independent coiuntry in 1991
armenia and diversity
armenia is most ethnically homogenous couintry in the region
amermenians vs azeris
booth have aspirations of forming nation sttates but then they went to war over boundaries
Georgian history
diversity leads to conflicts. especially ossetian and abkhazians
1990s abkahazians fight for NW portion of georiga
to have declared abhazia an independent stae
2008 ossetians fight with georgians resulting in them declaring south ossetia portion of georgia independent
russia recognize abkhazia and south ossetia as states
georgian diversity
more diverse than armenia and azerbaijan
